Sample Pot!

It's always bugged me that even though different colors, the paint colors in my living room and hallway look too similar. Because they are the same tone. My living room is a sage-ie green and the hallway is a sandy beige. But at night they look like they are the same color.

Yesterday I bought little sample pots from Fine Paints of Europe. One is a super deep olive and the other looks like a springy green. The olive will look black at night, so that's out. And that springy green is growing on me. It'll deepen at night and add a bit of brightness to the walls during the day. Without being electric.

I think I need more samples. But if I were being honest, I just like them because they are cute and tiny. And match my kitchen.

I need to wipe that shelf.

Irashaimase!

 

I took the boys to a sushi restaurant for lunch this week. I blame Disney. Between Mulan and Monsters, Inc., I had no choice. I know they don't seem like sushi movies, but Mulan is Asian and in Monsters, Inc. Mike Wazowski takes Celia to Harryhausen's for an anniversary dinner. Which is a monster flavored sushi restaurant. Combine that with the Melissa and Doug sushi set Hartwell got for his birthday, you have a sushi crazed boy. Make that "Shushi." 

The place we went was great. The servers thought it was adorable that my boys wanted to try the sushi. And they put my in a booth at the back of the restaurant, my favorite! They also checked on us a lot and wanted to know what the boys thought.

We ordered the Sushi Fun Plate, so the boys could make their own sushi. Mostly they just ate the rice and played with the "bubbles," which was the salmon roe.

The next day, Hartwell asked to go eat at the sushi restaurant with the rectangle cookies. I'm pretty sure he thinks sushi is rice balls, orange juice and orange sherbet with a wafer cookie.

Not close at all, buddy.

Surprise! A book cover!

When I was enlisted to make the class art project, Miss Shelley told me that a lot of the parents made a little photo book to go with it. So I took my camera, along with my markers and fabric squares, and proceeded to record the crap out of my project. And then my battery died.

I borrowed the school camera, but it was set on "no preview" so I was snapping away hoping I was gettin' the good stuff and occasionally scrolling through to see if I succeeded. So old fashioned!

The photos were okay, but there were not nearly as many as I would've liked.

So, photos I had. Book? Not so much. I wanted some crazy origami folded paper photo thing that was super excellent. And non-existent. I emailed muses, (that's you, Blazer), and molested the internet looking for the perfect thing.

Then, Captain Cough-ie woke me up. With my allergies, if I'm up, I sneeze. And can't get back to sleep. So I grabbed my iPod and searched for something to do for the photo book. At 2 am.

I found this tutorial at kirin notebook. Pretty amazing. A reversible note book cover. I got a book and some photo corners at Target and got busy with my cover.

Here is the quilt top:

 

The inside and my feet:

 

 The inside/reversible part:

 

And the back:

I did a photo of each kid holding up their artwork.Here's a photo of my guy:

  

I think it turned out pretty cute. I was a little worried because the tutorial is the kind where you just do what they say and then turn it right side out and see if you succeeded. Which I did!

(I don't know who put Vaseline on my camera, but they need to stop. It looks like a Moonlighting episode up in here).